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Interstellar

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Saw it yesterday. I was pretty excited to see it, and thought it was very good. The movie was stunning visually with the space shots and on Mann's planet. I was not expecting the movie to give me such an emotional reaction. As a previous poster noted, it made you want to go home and hug your kids. Glad I caught it in theaters.

I love all Nolan's stuff. Haven't seen Insomnia or Following, so I am going to check them out.
 
So, I finally saw this over the holiday. Good movie. Great, interesting storyline, and some pretty good acting. Made you think without getting too clunky with the science.

Couple nits, some of which have already been mentioned --

1. really clunky and sappy dialogue at points. Wanted to vom when Michael Caine went into Dylan Thomas with his dying breath (also after seeing those trip movies all I can think of is Steeve Koogan impersonation when I see him now). That and McC cry-yelling through the bookcase was a little much.

2. They mostly did a good job of explaining everything but:

a. we never really know how he got to the bookcase room and how he got out / survived. Black hole gravity will mush anyone, even Wooderson, so I am guessing we are supposed to believe that the 'helpers' scooped him up out of there right before he died, put him in the bookcase, and then zapped him back into space (floating by himself in his spacesuit?), right at the moment the Earth spacestation arrived so that he could get scooped up before running out of air.

b. Also, I love how none of his great grandkids greet or even say anything to him when he goes in the room to see Murph, like he is just some dude.

c. (this ties in with next photography comment) If they have 2 robots that can control the ships and landers, especially when they are all attached, why does McC need to be on a separate pod than catwoman? like I get why they needed to shed weight to escape the hole, but couldnt they just both be on the same ship, and between McC and the robots still activate that firing sequence? Like he sort of sacrificed himself for no reason there.

3. I didnt think that they did that great of a job with the space photography stuff, especially in a post Gravity (the movie, not the force of nature) world. In the beginning, you really have no idea what the spacecraft looks like or how it all fits together. I didnt really get that there were 3/4 landers attached on the circle/mothership until the end when they were in separate ones. There were all these close ups of the docking sequences, but you really didnt get enough wide angle shots to really tell what was going on. It was like watching a porn with well shot close ups but you really never have any idea what the people banging look like bc all you can see is close up humping. Hard to tell what was going on. There were some cool shots on the journey out and on the wave planet, but it couldve been done better imo.

Anyway, overall a successful flick I think. 7.5/10
 
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TheTwinAndreBen said:
So, I finally saw this over the holiday. Good movie. Great, interesting storyline, and some pretty good acting. Made you think without getting too clunky with the science.

Couple nits, some of which have already been mentioned --

1. really clunky and sappy dialogue at points. Wanted to vom when Michael Caine went into Dylan Thomas with his dying breath (also after seeing those trip movies all I can think of is Steeve Koogan impersonation when I see him now). That and McC cry-yelling through the bookcase was a little much.

2. They mostly did a good job of explaining everything but:

a. we never really know how he got to the bookcase room and how he got out / survived. Black hole gravity will mush anyone, even Wooderson, so I am guessing we are supposed to believe that the 'helpers' scooped him up out of there right before he died, put him in the bookcase, and then zapped him back into space (floating by himself in his spacesuit?), right at the moment the Earth spacestation arrived so that he could get scooped up before running out of air.

b. Also, I love how none of his great grandkids greet or even say anything to him when he goes in the room to see Murph, like he is just some dude.

c. (this ties in with next photography comment) If they have 2 robots that can control the ships and landers, especially when they are all attached, why does McC need to be on a separate pod than catwoman? like I get why they needed to shed weight to escape the hole, but couldnt they just both be on the same ship, and between McC and the robots still activate that firing sequence? Like he sort of sacrificed himself for no reason there.

3. I didnt think that they did that great of a job with the space photography stuff, especially in a post Gravity (the movie, not the force of nature) world. In the beginning, you really have no idea what the spacecraft looks like or how it all fits together. I didnt really get that there were 3/4 landers attached on the circle/mothership until the end when they were in separate ones. There were all these close ups of the docking sequences, but you really didnt get enough wide angle shots to really tell what was going on. It was like watching a porn with well shot close ups but you really never have any idea what the people banging look like bc all you can see is close up humping. Hard to tell what was going on. There were some cool shots on the journey out and on the wave planet, but it couldve been done better imo.

Anyway, overall a successful flick I think. 7.5/10
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Translation:

It's no "Sapce Cowboys"
 
Regarding c, they said that the Endurance had to be piloted manually due to the destruction caused by Mann. They needed a dude on the joy stick I think. I could be wrong though.
 
TheTwinAndreBen said:
So, I finally saw this over the holiday. Good movie. Great, interesting storyline, and some pretty good acting. Made you think without getting too clunky with the science.

Couple nits, some of which have already been mentioned --

1. really clunky and sappy dialogue at points. Wanted to vom when Michael Caine went into Dylan Thomas with his dying breath (also after seeing those trip movies all I can think of is Steeve Koogan impersonation when I see him now). That and McC cry-yelling through the bookcase was a little much.

2. They mostly did a good job of explaining everything but:

a. we never really know how he got to the bookcase room and how he got out / survived. Black hole gravity will mush anyone, even Wooderson, so I am guessing we are supposed to believe that the 'helpers' scooped him up out of there right before he died, put him in the bookcase, and then zapped him back into space (floating by himself in his spacesuit?), right at the moment the Earth spacestation arrived so that he could get scooped up before running out of air.

b. Also, I love how none of his great grandkids greet or even say anything to him when he goes in the room to see Murph, like he is just some dude.

c. (this ties in with next photography comment) If they have 2 robots that can control the ships and landers, especially when they are all attached, why does McC need to be on a separate pod than catwoman? like I get why they needed to shed weight to escape the hole, but couldnt they just both be on the same ship, and between McC and the robots still activate that firing sequence? Like he sort of sacrificed himself for no reason there.

3. I didnt think that they did that great of a job with the space photography stuff, especially in a post Gravity (the movie, not the force of nature) world. In the beginning, you really have no idea what the spacecraft looks like or how it all fits together. I didnt really get that there were 3/4 landers attached on the circle/mothership until the end when they were in separate ones. There were all these close ups of the docking sequences, but you really didnt get enough wide angle shots to really tell what was going on. It was like watching a porn with well shot close ups but you really never have any idea what the people banging look like bc all you can see is close up humping. Hard to tell what was going on. There were some cool shots on the journey out and on the wave planet, but it couldve been done better imo.

Anyway, overall a successful flick I think. 7.5/10
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You have no Murphs yet. It's a daddy daughter story most of all.

And it does it well.

Fathers (decent ones) have a biological drive to protect their children, especially their daughters (argue about those reasons)

The movie in its core is about a dad who did not listen to his child and instead took action to be the masculine saviour.

In the end everyone lost in a way because he didn't "stay"

It's about the choice of saving the race versus losing all time with your child.

I think the message of the movie is dad after he figured it out would choose to go back to murph but murph would choose the continuation of the human species.

It's the difference between a parent and a child.
 
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John Ruskin said:
You have no Murphs yet. It's a daddy daughter story most of all.

And it does it well.

Fathers (decent ones) have a biological drive to protect their children, especially their daughters (argue about those reasons)

The movie in its core is about a dad who did not listen to his child and instead took action to be the masculine saviour.

In the end everyone lost in a way because he didn't "stay"

It's about the choice of saving the race versus losing all time with your child.

I think the message of the movie is dad after he figured it out would choose to go back to murph but murph would choose the continuation of the human species.

It's the difference between a parent and a child.
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Well said.
 
John Ruskin said:
You have no Murphs yet. It's a daddy daughter story most of all.

And it does it well.

Fathers (decent ones) have a biological drive to protect their children, especially their daughters (argue about those reasons)

The movie in its core is about a dad who did not listen to his child and instead took action to be the masculine saviour.

In the end everyone lost in a way because he didn't "stay"

It's about the choice of saving the race versus losing all time with your child.

I think the message of the movie is dad after he figured it out would choose to go back to murph but murph would choose the continuation of the human species.

It's the difference between a parent and as a child.
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just saw this as well and agree. as the father of a 5 year old girl i responded to their story. her first video killed me. "it's my birthday..." and the final scene with her where she gave him permission to leave was poignant but how she knew he loved catwoman i have no idea.
 
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